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Record: 2-1-1
Bengals -1 1/2 -- Effort vs. no effort here. Can't be any more simple than that. Chasing teams on hot streaks around the sports book in the NFL is a sure path to bankruptcy, but we'll make an exception just this once because the situational edge to Bengals is so strong and the match ups also work in their favor, too. When a team, especially the Cincy D, is this young and is showing major signs of strength, the sky really is the limit. Meanwhile, the Cincy offense is showing nice balance and will have a major match up edge when it takes to the air against a Chargers' secondary that couldn't stop the pass to begin with and now has injury issues in the secondary. San Diego has no type of home-field edge. The Chargers had so many tickets left unsold last week that the game was blacked out in Southern California. Things go from bad to worse when a young with ample confidence hits town while on a playoff push and the very last bit of juice in the Chargers' lemon was squeezed in a near five-quarter game.
Broncos -7 -- The Bucs simply cannot stop the pass. We said it in Week 1 and we're saying it now. Heck, it's not even the same secondary thanks to injury, trades and drug suspensions (and a combo of two or all three in some players' cases). Tampa had a nice midseason run. Their effort should be commended as they play hard for rah-rah guy Greg Schiano, who is still very much behind the curve as far as in-game management at the NFL and Xs and Os. All of that gets magnified with a road trip to the Broncos and the reason for it is that without max effort, Tampa is simply not a good enough to hang with the league's elite and we don't see a team going from the swamp to the altitude while facing a QB that can exploit what they cannot stop is going to lead to anything other than an easy win. Sad to see McGahee go down for the Broncos, but it actually creates a great situation for us because a Broncos offense that strives for excellence and precision with Manning at QB will be taking the insertion of a new RB as a challenge to not interrupt their flow. While most may think the Broncos will produce one of their poorer offensive showings of the season, we see quite the opposite as Manning gets his unit to rise to the occasion. Tampa needed a slew of breaks to beat the Chargers a few weeks ago (punt and INT returns for TD). Then made an improbable late-game rally to beat the Panthers in OT. Last week was a grinder and probably the last good effort we'll see out of this team for a good few weeks if not the entire season. This one gets ugly.
Bengals -1 1/2 -- Effort vs. no effort here. Can't be any more simple than that. Chasing teams on hot streaks around the sports book in the NFL is a sure path to bankruptcy, but we'll make an exception just this once because the situational edge to Bengals is so strong and the match ups also work in their favor, too. When a team, especially the Cincy D, is this young and is showing major signs of strength, the sky really is the limit. Meanwhile, the Cincy offense is showing nice balance and will have a major match up edge when it takes to the air against a Chargers' secondary that couldn't stop the pass to begin with and now has injury issues in the secondary. San Diego has no type of home-field edge. The Chargers had so many tickets left unsold last week that the game was blacked out in Southern California. Things go from bad to worse when a young with ample confidence hits town while on a playoff push and the very last bit of juice in the Chargers' lemon was squeezed in a near five-quarter game.
Broncos -7 -- The Bucs simply cannot stop the pass. We said it in Week 1 and we're saying it now. Heck, it's not even the same secondary thanks to injury, trades and drug suspensions (and a combo of two or all three in some players' cases). Tampa had a nice midseason run. Their effort should be commended as they play hard for rah-rah guy Greg Schiano, who is still very much behind the curve as far as in-game management at the NFL and Xs and Os. All of that gets magnified with a road trip to the Broncos and the reason for it is that without max effort, Tampa is simply not a good enough to hang with the league's elite and we don't see a team going from the swamp to the altitude while facing a QB that can exploit what they cannot stop is going to lead to anything other than an easy win. Sad to see McGahee go down for the Broncos, but it actually creates a great situation for us because a Broncos offense that strives for excellence and precision with Manning at QB will be taking the insertion of a new RB as a challenge to not interrupt their flow. While most may think the Broncos will produce one of their poorer offensive showings of the season, we see quite the opposite as Manning gets his unit to rise to the occasion. Tampa needed a slew of breaks to beat the Chargers a few weeks ago (punt and INT returns for TD). Then made an improbable late-game rally to beat the Panthers in OT. Last week was a grinder and probably the last good effort we'll see out of this team for a good few weeks if not the entire season. This one gets ugly.
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.. hope to see more picks for next week .. BOL
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